§32.24.1dum haec ab navali exercitu geruntur, consul in Phocide ad Elatiam castris positis primo colloquiis rem per principes Elatensium temptavit; §32.24.2postquam nihil esse in manu sua et plures validioresque esse regios quam oppidanos respondebatur, tum simul ab omni parte operibus armisque urbem est adgressus.
While these things were being done by the naval army, the consul, having pitched his camp in Phocis near Elatia, at first attempted negotiation through the leading men of the Elatians; after the reply was made that nothing was in their power, and that the king's forces were more numerous and stronger than the townspeople, he then at once attacked the city from every side with siege works and arms.
§32.24.3ariete admoto cum quantum inter duas turres muri erat prorutum cum ingenti fragore ac strepitu nudasset urbem, simul et cohors Romana per apertum recenti strage iter invasit, §32.24.4et ex omnibus oppidi partibus relictis suis quisque stationibus in §32.24.5eum, qui premebatur impetu hostium, locum concurrerunt.
When a battering ram was brought up, and the portion of the wall between two towers was demolished and had laid open the city with a huge crash and noise, at the same time a Roman cohort rushed through the passage opened by the recent destruction, and from all parts of the town, leaving their respective stations, they all rushed together into that place which was being pressed by the onslaught of the enemy.
eodem tempore Romani et ruinas muri supervadebant et scalas ad stantia moenia inferebant.
At the same time, the Romans were both climbing over the ruins of the wall and applying scaling ladders to the standing walls.
et dum in unam partem oculos animosque hostium certamen averterat, pluribus locis scalis capitur murus, §32.24.6armatique in urbem transcenderunt.
And while the combat had diverted the eyes and minds of the enemy to one part, the wall was captured by ladders in several places, and armed men crossed over into the city.
quo tumultu audito territi hostes relicto, quem conferti tuebantur, loco in arcem omnes, inermi quoque sequente turba, §32.24.7confugerunt.
Hearing this tumult, the terrified enemy, having abandoned the place which they had been defending in close array, all, with the unarmed crowd also following, to the citadel fled.
ita urbe potitur consul.
Thus the consul got possession of the city.
qua direpta missis in arcem, qui vitam regiis, si inermes abire vellent, libertatem Elatensibus pollicerentur, fideque in haec data post dies paucos arcem recipit.
After it was plundered, having sent messengers into the citadel to promise life to the king's soldiers if they wished to depart without arms, and freedom to the Elatians, and after a pledge had been given on these terms, he received the citadel a few days later.